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Sounds pretty definitive!Mr. young: I am pretty sure there are ways to remotely disable your iPad should it become lost or stolen. I should look into it, as I just got a new one. You can certainly enable "Find my iPad", which I am about to do!()

TV Everywhere my XYZ. I am going to give Nomad a try and if that does not work well and not iPad app "soon". Since I have to travel some now; I am going to be forced to switch to Dish after 11 years with D*.

TV Everywhere my XYZ. I am going to give Nomad a try and if that does not work well and not iPad app "soon". Since I have to travel some now; I am going to be forced to switch to Dish after 11 years with D*.

Dish's solution to outside the home streaming is basically a Slingbox. You can always buy one of those for your DIRECTV system and stream to your heart's content.

TV Everywhere my XYZ. I am going to give Nomad a try and if that does not work well and not iPad app "soon". Since I have to travel some now; I am going to be forced to switch to Dish after 11 years with D*.

Nomad does work on iPads's just not as a native iPad only app. And before switching you might want to check out some of the problems that Dish folks have when it comes to their everywhere offering.

And it works very well. It's not only a completely functional GUI, but the Nomad device itself is client agnostic. It creates and transfers the same resolution/quality MP4 file to an iPad, iPod, iPhone, PC or Windows laptop. As a result, iPad video playback quality is as good as it's going to be, even if the GUI will be someday look more elegant. Perhaps like DirecTV for iPad's GUI, or maybe even integrated into it.

The app works pretty ell for me, but I find the selection of Live TV shows limited. I would love to be able to watch my local Regional Sports Network on it, since MLB.TV blacks out my game (don't get me started...)

Are there reasons anyone knows of why some channels can be live streamed and others not? Is it bandwidth concerns, licensing, or something else?

It won't really be useful until you can stream live TV from outside your home.

The nomad is not yet the tool to do this. The original trademark grant documentation mentions streaming, but it is not currently implemented. As Go Beavs points out, you can do this right now with a Slingbox or a Vulkano (from a single receiver).

The other issue is that many don't have the upstream Internet bandwidth to stream HD video and that's not something you can cure with a product that must compress on-the-fly.

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The app works pretty ell for me, but I find the selection of Live TV shows limited. I would love to be able to watch my local Regional Sports Network on it, since MLB.TV blacks out my game (don't get me started...)

Are there reasons anyone knows of why some channels can be live streamed and others not? Is it bandwidth concerns, licensing, or something else?

Love my directv iPad app. Just wish it would get channels right on the sports scoreboard. Keeps telling me there are no channels available for most games when they are. Seems it tries to figure out your subscriptions and fails. I'd rather the way the red button score guide works. Give me all the channels and if I don't get the one I pick, the receiver tells me that.

I have a question about the guide in the iPad app: why do my HD locals have 2 instances? I live in Denver, don't have an AM21 nor an HR20, and all of my locals that are in HD show up twice in the guide. Trying to setup SNL to record tonight and I don't know which one to pick!

I have a question about the guide in the iPad app: why do my HD locals have 2 instances? I live in Denver, don't have an AM21 nor an HR20, and all of my locals that are in HD show up twice in the guide. Trying to setup SNL to record tonight and I don't know which one to pick!

Nope. I have "hide SD duplicates" set to on and both of the channel listings say HD/have the HD logos. For example, 9 NBC HD, or 7 ABCHD. They also all have the HD icon in the show listing when the show is in HD (both SNL's were listed as HD). I have a workaround, but it's frustrating that I had to find one

Anyway, my workaround is this: I set both shows to record. I set the first instance of the channel/show to record 1 minute early. I set the 2nd instance to record 2 minutes early. Whichever one records, I set that channel as a favorite/"heart" in my iPad app guide.

I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that I use to have an HR-20 with OTA capabilities. That receiver has been gone for awhile now, most certainly gone before I installed the iPad app. In the case of HR-20's or AM21's, doesn't the OTA channel show up as "9-1" as the channel number instead of just "9" in the iPad app guide??

I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that I use to have an HR-20 with OTA capabilities. That receiver has been gone for awhile now, most certainly gone before I installed the iPad app. In the case of HR-20's or AM21's, doesn't the OTA channel show up as "9-1" as the channel number instead of just "9" in the iPad app guide??

Yes, locals show up as -1, -2 etc. here in SF, on my Guide on the HR20-700 I have in use. They don't show up on my iPad.

Way too many times have I been prevented from running the app as log-in fails. Today, it wouldn't go at all. Rebooted the iPad (3) and now it wants me to enter PW, which I did twice- no joy. On the try after closing and reopening, it did finally let me in, though it's still searching for receivers. It's showing the sports panel, but saying my Sharks game is "blacked out".... cause it can't find the receivers! [It ain't blacked out...,]

Now, as it never found receivers, it's on its fourth attempt. It did not make me reenter either user name nor PW, but it ain't finding the go ahead, either. Still telling me my Giants BB and Sharks hockey are blacked out.

DANG!

Is this not a DIRECTV® server issue? Cause my LAN is pretty solid, and this happens a lot.

Man I am excited. I have been on many a business trip and wished I could watch my content on my DVR while kicking back in my hotel room. Now I can. I just bought the new iPad 3 and I can't wait to try this out.